Inside the interiors that inspired the Oscar de la Renta Fall 2016 collection

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During preparation for his Fall 2016 collection
for Oscar de la Renta, Peter
Copping the creative
director who showed his line for the house this week took much of his
inspiration from the interiors and architectural snapshots in award-winning photographer
Robert Polidori’s book Chronophagia.

“My inspirations came from thinking about the juxtaposition of
something modern against something highly decorative,” the designer says.
“Ornate details are juxtaposed with clean silhouettes in this collection—there
are references to classical and 18th-century motifs such as toile de Jouy, but
they are reworked by putting them through a technical, pixelated process that
gives them a modern feeling.”

Photo: Robert Polidori From Chronophagia, published by Steidl, 2014

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This interiors-inspired collection was also shaped by the Battle of Versailles fashion show in 1973, where French designers presented highly embellished collections against American designers’ minimal, functional silhouettes.